Buffalo Bayou
Coming to you this week from the Brown Theater at the Wortham Theater Center in Houston, Texas, another sold-out broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion. With special guests, Western swing and hot jazz ladies of Ft. Worth The Quebe Sisters Band, Texas-born mandolinist / violinist Richard Kriehn, and the Chérubin of Midland, beloved mezzo-soprano Susan Graham. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, Rich Dworsky and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
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Segment 1
- 00:00:00 Logo
- 00:00:12 Tishomingo Blues
- 00:03:14 Butter script
- 00:05:36 Houston Texas Girls - GK and Shoe Band
- 00:08:33 GK talks with the Quebe sisters
- 00:09:04 It's A Sin to Tell a Lie - Quebe Sisters Band
- 00:13:44 Yearning - Quebe Sisters Band
- 00:16:05 Cowboys script
- 00:27:26 Big script
- 00:29:24 La Donna e Mobile - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
- 00:31:20 Powdermilk Biscuit Break / Now Thank We All Our God
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Segment 2
- 00:34:34 Guy Noir script
- 00:47:56 It's All Your Fault - GK/ Shoe Band
- 00:52:16 GK talks with Susan Graham
- 00:54:35 Ombra mai fú - Susan Graham with Richard Bado
- 01:00:02 Non so piu - Susan Graham and Richard Bado
- 01:03:03 Intermission - I've Just Seen A Face
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Segment 3
- 01:07:10 Greetings
- 01:09:53 It is Well With My Soul - Susan Graham, GK, Quebe Sisters, Shoes
- 01:14:33 Guy's Shoes script
- 01:15:44 Cold Cold Heart - Quebe Sisters Band
- 01:18:50 Café Boeuf script
- 01:22:40 GK talks with Susan Graham
- 01:23:00 Vilja Song - Susan Graham and Richard Bado
- 01:29:50 True Love Ways - Susan Graham and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
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Segment 4
- 01:33:03 News From Lake Wobegon
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Segment 5
- 01:48:12 O Mio Babbino Caro - The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
- 01:50:27 Every Which Way - Quebe Sisters Band
- 01:53:08 Oil script
- 01:55:21 Credits, Goodnight Sweetheart / Liberty
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